I know that most people are probably double-booked, or perhaps even triple-booked, between the various TSM leagues that are running right now, but I'm considering putting together another fantasy league with a few of the ideas that Al and I bandied about for the NMB Top Dollar League a couple of years back. Some things would change, but the hybrid auction/draft would still be the primary idea. Would anybody be interested in joining another league?

If enough interest does come around, I'll post a full league constitution, but here's an informal writeup of the league concept, for those who may be considering it:

FORMAT:12 Team 5x5 Mixed Roto ESPN Fantasy League, with the following twists on the typical categories:

Total Bases replaces HR

Net Steals (SB-CS) replaces SB

Quality Starts replaces Wins

OBP replaces Batting Average

Each team is allowed 15 Waiver/FA moves, but can make an unlimited amount of trades.

ROSTERS:Each team will have a roster of 25 players with three DL spots (28 slots in total). One of the typical outfielder slots will be changed to a Center Fielder, just to induce a little more position scarcity:

9 Offense (C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, CF, OF, OF, UT)

8 Pitching (SP, SP, RP, RP, P, P, P, P)

8 Bench

Player distribution will proceed in two phases:

Auction Phase (Sunday, March 25th via AIM Chat): Each team has a $150 budget to bid for 8 players. Selection order (i.e. the order in which owners nominate players for auction) will be determined randomly at the time of the auction.

Draft Phase (Saturday, March 31st, ESPN Live Draft) - Owners fill out the remaining 17 slots on their roster through a serpentine draft. Draft order is determined by the average dollar value of each team's top three salaries from the auction phase (i.e. the owner with the least expensive top three gets to pick first in the draft phase.)

AWARDS:The ESPN Fantasy Leagues allow for the creation of customized trophies, so I went ahead and created a couple of different awards outside of the standard league championship. Owners can earn the following awards at the end of the season:

The Top Dollar Triforce of Power: Awarded to the league championship.

The Golden Pierzynski Award: Awarded to the "winner" of the best trade of the season, as voted by the league.

The Branch Rickey Memorial Draft-Day Bandit Award: Awarded to the best draft of the season, as voted by the league.

It's a free league - this is the first year that ESPN has offered their service for free, so I thought it might be worth a spin, especially since they can cover the scoring categories for the league (unlike Yahoo!, for example).

And J.T., I added you to the list above. Still looking to get some more people on board, though, so that we can figure out a good time on Sunday for everybody to attend the auction phase.

I wouldn't have a problem with 1pm EST, but I'm not sure how everybody else feels about it. At this rate, unless we bring in some more competitors, we may have to put this off until about midseason, when people start to get an itch for second-half leagues.

All right, thanks to everybody who joined in, but it looks like we're not going to have enough participants to move forward with the league right now. I'll bring it back around during the All-Star Break and see what kind of interest people would have for a second-half league.

The AL only draft for Yahoo is in mere hours. We have a pathetic 5 teams, Join now! Even if you can't make the 7:30 eastern draft, pre rank and still have fun. It will be a grest league, lets get some more people!!!!!!!!!!